Guide to the records of the Privy Council (as filmed by AJCP)
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National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Privy Council: Great Britain
- Title
- Records of the Privy Council (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1784 - 1844
- Collection Number
- PC
- Extent
- 67 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Records of the Privy Council and Privy Council Office. Selected items were filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) from PC1: Miscellaneous unbound papers and PC2: Registers of the Privy Council.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the National Archives of the UK. Further advice is available from: The National Archives of the UK. Copyright (http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/legal/copyright/)
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material (The National Archives of the UK) and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Citation of items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material at the National Archives of the UK and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: TNA Series: CO 201/429, New South Wales. Original Correspondence. Despatches May-June 1850 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Example: TNA Series: CO 201/429, New South Wales. Original Correspondence. Despatches May-June 1850 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Further information on citation guidelines is available at The National Archives of the UK (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/citing-documents-national-archives/ ).
Archival History
Material selectively filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP). AJCP Reels: 619, 938-982, 1507.
Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
The National Archives of the UK (TNA).
Series Reference: PC. For further information, see PC at TNA. (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C223)
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7833995 as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding Aid Note
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming by the AJCP rather than to the date range of the original Series or File.This online finding aid, published by the National Library of Australia in 2018, is a revised version of the original paper handbooks: Australian Joint Copying Project. Handbook. Part 6. Public Record Group: Air Ministry, Board of Trade, Exchequer and Audit Department, Treasury and other Record Groups, Second Edition, pp xvi, 62-64, National Library of Australia, 1995.
Subjects
Great Britain: Privy Council
Bibliography
This revised finding-aid was originally published as:
Australian Joint Copying Project. Handbook. Part 6. Public Record Group: Air Ministry, Board of Trade, Exchequer and Audit Department, Treasury and other Record Groups, Second Edition, National Library of Australia, 1995.
Administrative History
In the fourteenth century the King's Council, comprising his chief ministers of state and a few bishops, peers and household officials, became known as the Privy Council. Among other functions, it provided advice on whether petitions to the King should be granted and acted as a judicial tribunal in cases where the common law was unable to provide remedies.
By the eighteenth century it had lost most of its administrative functions, although some functions were carried out by committees of the Council, such as Trade and Plantations (1784) and Education (1839). It retained certain judicial powers, such as being the court of final appeal in the Admiralty jurisdiction.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, established by statute in 1833, heard civil and criminal appeals from courts of the overseas dominions and colonies.
Item Descriptions
Series PC. 1. Privy Council: Miscellaneous Unbound Papers, 1796 - 1826
33 itemsUnbound papers on a wide range of subjects, including charters, commissions, public health, military and naval stores, schools, the colonies (1785-1800) and the Convict Establishment (1819-1844).
Items filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) include: petitions and letters from individuals; reports from government deparoments; papers in appeal cases; proclamations, etc. These records concern convicts and prisons; the 1812 massacre of Maoris at Tippoona, New Zealand by whalers searching for the wrecked ship Boyd; a charter for New Zealand Company, Southern Whale Fishery; and settlement in New South Wales.
Selected extracts only have been filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) from pieces 37-64, 3967 and 4303. Pieces 67-92 have been filmed in full.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original held by Public Record Office, London. Public Record Office PC 1/37-4304 (various). For further information, see PC 1 at TNA. (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11474)
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2080194] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Subjects
Boyd (Ship); Convicts; New Zealand Company; Southern Whale Fishery Company; Australia: transportation of convicts; New Zealand: massacre of indigneous peoples; New Zealand; New South Wales
Subseries Pieces 37-40 (Select). Domestic, Military, Trade and Legal Papers, 1796 - 1798
Subseries Pieces 61-64 (Select). Colonial Papers, 1784 - 1795
Correspondence re ship of war to accompany convict transport vessels to Botany Bay, 1784 - 1786 (File 61. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes letters proposing appointment of additional Man of War officer, and additional marines etc. to establish settlement.
Correspondence re appointment of and instructions to Captain Arthur Philip, 1787 - 1791 (File 62. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes correspondence relating to creation of a Court of Vice Admiralty in New South Wales; settlers; land grants; building of churches; maintenance of minister and school master; table of fees; lists of convicts sentenced to transportation overseas, proposal for a Great Seal for the use of the NSW Government.
Series PC 2. Privy Council: Registers, 1786 - 1810
34 itemsThis series contains the register of the Privy Council, comprising the minutes of proceedings, orders, proclamations and other papers of the Privy Council and reports and papers of the Privy Council committees.
Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) selectively copied from all pieces and items include: detailed lists of convicts sentenced to transportation to Australia, whaling and to instructions to Governors of New South Wales.
Selected extracts only have been filmed from all pieces.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original held by Public Record Office, London. Series Reference: Public Record Office PC 2/131-187 (various). For further information, see PC 2 at TNA. (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11475)
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2080201] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding Aid Note
All pieces in this Series, that have been filmed by the AJCP, are fully indexed.
Subjects
Convicts; Convicts: New South Wales; Whaling; New South Wales: politics and government
Registers (vol. 24): organisation of convict fleet, 1786 (File 131. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Marines for Botany Bay; Convicts - appointing place of transportation for several lists of convicts (gives term, name, and where and when tried); appointment of Second Captain to proceed to Botany Bay; Nova Scotia.
Registers (vol. 25): convict transportation lists, 1787 (File 132. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Convicts - orders appointing place of transportation for several lists of convicts; Vice Admiralty; New South Wales.
Registers (vol. 27): convict transportation lists; NSW land grants, May 1789 - May 1790 (File 134. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Convicts - order appointing place of transportation for listed convicts (includes name, crime, place of trial; other lists include sentence length, name where and when tried); Newfoundland; New South Wales - land grants.
Registers (vol. 28): Great Seal for Government use; convict transportation lists, April 1790 - March 1791 (File 135. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: New South Wales - preparation of Great Seal for Government use; New South Wales - draft of design for Great Seal; New South Wales - order appointing place of convict transportation for listed convicts (includes name, where and when trial held, sentence).
Registers (vol. 29): convict transportation lists, April 1791 - April 1792 (File 136. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: New South Wales - order appointing place of transportation for convicts listed (lists name, where and when tried, term).
Registers (vol. 30): convict transportation lists; Scottish convicts, May 1792 - February 1793 (File 137. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Convicts - order appointing place of transportation for listed convicts in the Stanislaus Hulk at Woolwich, Fortunee Hulk in Langston Harbour, Lion Hulk in Portsmouth Harbour. Lists name, age, offence, when and where convicted, sentence. List of transports in NewGate specifying their names, ages, term; List of Scotch convicts under sentence of transportation in the Censor Hulk at Woolwich; In the Fortunee Hulk in Langston Harbour; In the New Compter, London. St John's; List of female convicts under sentence of transportation - Name, age, trade (sometimes) sentence; further lists of convicts to be transported to New South Wales (name, where and when convicted, term).
Registers (vol. 32): Scottish convict transportation lists; appointment of John Hunter as Governor, October 1793 - April 1794 (File 139. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Order appointing place of transportation/ banishment for male convicts from Scotland; List of convicts showing names, when and where convicted, sentence. Many from Glasgow; List of female offenders (English); Commission for John Hunter Esq to be Governor; List of Offenders from Edinburgh.
Registers (vol. 33): instructions for Governor Hunter, May 1794 - July 1794 (File 140. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: New South Wales - instructions for Governor Hunter; Newfoundland - instructions for Governor Sir James Wallace.
Registers (vol. 34): transportation of convict Joseph Gerald (Edinburgh), August 1794 - December 1794 (File 141. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Convicts - order appointing place of transportation or banishment for Scottish convicts, one convict listed (Joseph Gerald, Edinburgh).
Registers (vol. 37): female convict transportation lists, August 1795 - December 1795 (File 144. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: proposed draft of order for transport of certain female convicts to New South Wales; order appointing place of transportation of female convicts; List of female convicts (Name, age, where tried and when, place of transportation, term).
Registers (vol. 39): male convict transportation list, June 1796 - October 1796 (File 146. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Order appointing place of transportation for convicts; List of convicts - male, (name, age, where and when tried, place of transport; term).
Registers (vol. 40): female convict transportation list, November 1796 - February 1797 (File 147. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for listed female convicts; list of transports (female convicts) includes name, age, when and where tried, place of transportation, term.
Registers (vol. 42): male convict transportation list, August 1797 - December 1797 (File 149. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for listed convicts; list of male transports (name, age, where tried and when, place of transportation, term) order appointing place of transportation for female convicts (no list of names attached).
Registers (vol. 43): female convict transportation list, January 1798 - April 1798 (File 150. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: orders appointing place of transportation for female convicts; lists of female transports (name, age, where and when tried, place of transportation, term).
Registers (vol. 44): male convict transportation list, June 1798 - November 1798 (File 151. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for male convicts; list of male transports (name, age, where and when tried, place of transportation, term).
Registers (vol. 46): female convict transportation list, June 1799 - December 1799 (File 153. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for female convicts; list of female convicts (name, age, where and when tried, place of transportation, term).
Registers (vol. 47): male convict transportation list, January 1800 - May 1800 (File 154. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of male transports (name, age, where and when tried, term).
Registers (vol. 48): convict transportation lists, June 1800 - September 1800 (File 155. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for male and female convicts; list of male convicts (name, age, where and when tried, place of transportation, term); list of female convicts (name, where and when tried, place of transportation, term).
Registers (vol. 51): convict transportation lists; South Whale Fishery, May 1801 - July 1801 (File 158. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of convicts- male and female- (name, age, where and when convicted, place of transportation, term); South Whale Fishery Ships Register.
Registers (vol. 52): convict transportation list, August 1801 - December 1801 (File 159. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of convicts (name, age, where and when convicted, term).
Registers (vol. 53): appointment of Philip Gidley King, January 1802 - May 1802 (File 160. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: New South Wales - order approving commission and instructions for Philip Gidley King, Governor.
Registers (vol. 54): convict transportation lists, June 1802 - December 1802 (File 161. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of male convicts (name, where and when tried, term); list of female convicts (name, age, where and when convicted, term).
Registers (vol. 55): convict transportation list, January 1803 - May 1803 (File 162. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of convicts (name, where and when convicted, term).
Registers (vol. 57): convict transportation lists, September 1803 - February 1804 (File 164. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of male and female convicts (name, where and when tried, term).
Registers (vol. 60): Governor Bligh; male convict transportation list, February 1805 - June 1805 (File 167. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: New South Wales - commission for Governor Bligh approved; order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of male convicts (name, where and when convicted, term); instructions for Governor Bligh.
Registers (vol. 62): convict transportation list, December 1805 - April 1806 (File 169. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of convicts (name, where and when convicted, term).
Registers (vol. 64): convict transportation list; John Palmer's appeal against Simeon Lord, August 1806 - December 1806 (File 171. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: orders appointing place of transportation for convicts; lists of convicts (name, where and when convicted, term); New South Wales - Committee Report for permitting John Palmer to appeal against Simeon Lord.
Registers (vol. 66): Alexander, May 1807 - August 1807 (File 173. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Entry - the cargo of the ship Alexander from New South Wales admitted to entry. [text is very faint and difficult to read].
Registers (vol. 68): female convict transportation list, December 1807 - February 1808 (File 175. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: Order for convicts to be transported to New South Wales; list of female convicts (name, where and when convicted, term).
Registers (vol. 70): convict transportation list, 1 June 1808 - 31 August 1808 (File 177. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of convicts (name, where and when convicted, term).
The title frame of this file is incorrect and belongs to another Privy Council file.
Registers (vol. 74): Commission and instructions to Lachlan Macquarie Esquire, Governor, May 1809 - June 1809 (File 181. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Registers (vol. 75): convict transportation list, July 1809 - August 1809 (File 182. AJCP Reel No: 619)
Includes: order appointing place of transportation for convicts; list of convicts (name, where and when convicted, term).